"Debate, too, continues to rage around how best to go back and fill in the gaps in our historic art collections currently lacking women – can female artists simply be 'reinserted' into art history?" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/06/how-the-art-world-airbrushed-female-artists-from-history Even though the art world is aware of their history of gender bias, that still stays largely in place today, do you think there is enough being done to create a more level playing field? Do you think the efforts of more independent galleries to implement more work by women will have an influence on more well-known institutions like the Tate? Look up any one of the artists mentioned in the article. What do you think about their work?
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dell
2/21/2017 06:49:19 pm
awesome!
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5/7/2017 06:21:00 pm
The art world definitely needs to expose female artists more, although I don't know if they can completely redo art history with female artists. It's possible, but I feel it's going to take a while because majority of art history text only talks about male artists. I feel this is extremely important seeing as every art course I've taken has a larger female demographic than male and it's not fair that they always have to view art from the lens of a male.
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Joe Dubber
5/8/2017 10:39:02 pm
I think this problem is largely exacerbated by the museums representing artwork based on what wealthy collectors buy and champion. While these artworks are valuable from a monetary standpoint, they are not a fair representation of the art culture which they are supposed to be representing.
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Mitchell J.
5/13/2017 11:12:45 pm
I think galleries representing more female artists would definitely catch the attention of more prominent institutions. With the political climate now I'm sure this will probably be happening soon or is already in the process of being reality.
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Joseph Contreras
5/13/2017 11:29:10 pm
I think women are ready to take over. I think women should dominate the art world for a while. Only then can it ever be equal in the future. Art is not sexist, but our culture is. This has to stop.
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5/14/2017 09:15:17 am
I find it interesting that now female artists have to assert themselves yet again to a public space. I think this is the only way we can recognized and be on the level to male artists. We have to offer museums our work as much as possible just get our foot in the door and if indie museums is the only place that'll accept then that's a start. Sort of reminds me of all these Impressionist painters who didn't receive the credit they deserve for their innovated approach to art at the time and was denied entry to the salon so they decided just to have their own show, the Salon des Refuses...that was also mocked by the social elite as well, but those painters held their own show no less, which is what I believe females artists must do today to showcase their own work by displaying their own work in different avenues that will except them like indie museums and something they didn't back in the 1800s-the internet. Slowly but surely we can begin to make our mark into art history.
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